Passively Quotes

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Related topics: Values Action

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna

The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie